What scares us when we contemplate old age? The major concerns revolve around the loss of physical power and activity, faltering health; women, of course, dread the looks being gone. We all have our personal insecurities, yet there will be one more factor that is equally rather daunting for all of us: fear of diminishing…
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If you open the ingredient list or label of any “healthy” product or beauty product (especially with the brightly advertised anti-aging effect) you are sure to come across some antioxidants. Let’s sort out what they really are, and whether they really can do something about aging. Oxygen: friend or a foe? As is known, human…
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The concept itself contains a kind of spell against old age: “vita” (from Latin) means life and “aucto” standing for “continuously increasing, multiplying”. This word describes the mechanisms resisting the processes of aging and targeting the preservation of vitality, but first and foremost, it deals with psychological health. Biologically, vitauct manifests itself in the body's…
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According to the report “Blindness and vision impairment” by the World Health Organization, 36 million of people over the world are blind, and 1.3 billion people on the planet suffer from some form of visual impairment. The fear of blindness is in the top five of most widespread phobias (occupying the fourth place) but, surprisingly,…
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Many of us were saying that age is just a number at least once in our lifetime. Still, the bigger our age number becomes, the more often we think about how much this number will grow yet. We also wonder how long our feeling of being young will correlate not only with our appearance but…
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Based on data by WHO, the average life expectancy in the world accounts for 71 years. This indicator varies depending on gender (the average length of a woman's life in the world is 73.5 years, and a man's - 68.5), country of residence (first place is Hong Kong, where women live on average 87.3 years,…
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